I wrote:
> SRE and the unicode databases (me again) should also work
> pretty much out of the box.
a 32-bit version SRE works as expected, at least:
>>> a = array.array("i", map(ord, "hello"))
>>> m = sre.search("l+", a)
>>> m
<SRE_Match object at 008CECA8>
>>> m.group(0)
array('i', [108, 108])
the DLL size is identical, and the performance is roughly the
same.
Cheers /F